PUBG may not be the best game of 2017, but it is undeniable that Brendan Greene's creations were the biggest phenomenon of last year. Since available in early beta early access on PC starting in March, online game battle royale continues to collect gamers to successfully overthrow Dota 2 as the user's favorite game Steam.
The achievement took place in August, and shortly thereafter, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was recorded played by an active player of 1.3 million inhabitants - surpassing Dota 2's record with 1,291,328 gamers. But the euphoria of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds does not subside, even more so after the full version of the multiplayer game released in Windows and Xbox One via Xbox Game Preview in December 2017 yesterday.
The creative director reveals PUBG's new achievements. Via Twitter, Greene announced that his creation was played by more than 3.1 million users, exactly 3,106,358 people. This figure is more than four times the number of concurrent gamers most Dota 2 then, at 704,938.Previously, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds successfully surpassed 2 million gamers in October 2017.
The Xbox PUBG version sold over one million copies and became the most playable game on the platform, while by the end of 2017, this PC version was purchased by over 24 million people. Total sales exceed 25 million copies. The plan, this game will be localized by Tencent specifically for China, including the agenda of providing mobile version of it.
Although not the first, Battlegrounds is considered the most important battle royale game because of its popularity (Greene has already released a number of similar formulas in different games). This game triggers other developers to follow the PUBG Corporation, one of the most notable examples is the battle royal mode implementation in Fortnite's sandbox game created by Epic Games.
Apart from the rise of the battle royale, Greene also expressed his anxiety about the birth of many PUBG clones. Via the BBC he conveyed, "I want this genre to flourish, and for that to happen, we need a lot of modifications and new features in this formula. But if it's just a clone, the battle royale does not go forward and instead makes people bored. "
Greene does not claim ownership of the last-man-standing genre, but complains that some PUBG copies have actually copied a number of specific mechanisms or elements of his work - one example is the parachuting part of the match.